[2] In the United States, a noose is sometimes left as a message in order to intimidate people, as it was the main object used in segregation era lynchings.

[7] Austin Reed Edenfield, a former student of the University of Mississippi, pled guilty in 2016 to a federal civil-rights crime, acknowledging that he and Graeme Phillip Harris had tied a noose and a flag of Georgia around the neck of a statue honoring James Meredith, the university's first African-American student.

[9] In September 2019, Andrew M. Smith, a University of Illinois student, was arrested for placing a noose in a campus elevator.

After the discovery, which was made by a crew member for Richard Petty Motorsports at the Alabama racetrack, NASCAR was alerted and contacted the FBI, which sent 15 agents to the track to investigate.

[15] Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on The Wall Street Journal claimed the controversy and media furor concerning the incident could have been prevented by not contacting the FBI and NASCAR authorities quickly checking the video surveillance by themselves, since NASCAR already tightly controls and surveils access to its garages.